Thomas County cat., 1887-04-21
GOLD sLoopED MURDER

GOLD BLooDED MURDER
In Sherman County on Account OF
q Contest.
A. E. Keeler, clerk of the district court
OF Sherman county, gave US the facts as
near as known of the killing cf one Mr..
BOalt.
Mr.. BOalt lives Oh section 2, town 8
south; range AZ west, and one Mr.. Olan
had claim in same section which BOalt
contested. Olan told him If he did not
withdraw the contest he would kill him.
On Sunday last he was shot through the
head by party outside his house, where
he was reading ut the time in newspa-
per. When found Monday he held the
newspaper in his hand, and was sitting
naturally in the chair, SO the shot must
have caused instant death. A coronors s
jury was called Monday, and they found
he met death at the hands of parties un-
known, but placed suspicion on one Olan
who was arrested Tuesday morning at
Eustis. while on the stage to leave the
country. At this writing it is not known
the result of his arrest.
Window glass at B. Nottingham's
hardware.
Go to j. B. Morrison s. Sons to buy
your dry goods and groceries. They will
save you money.
McGonigal s. Son have good $500 lot,
centrally located, which they will give to
good live business man who will erect
a good business house on it.
!, A man may. if he knows not how to
save as he gets, keep his nose all his life
to the grindstone; but when it comes to
buying the hardware you need, the eco
to call on Is. Nottingham, successor to l.
H. Bullers, next door to BOerner Bros
shoe store.
H. ID. Thompson, of the firm of
Thompson & Hubbell, of Des MOines,
Ia, was in the city Monday. They are
the parties who buy Thomas county scrip
and warrants. MIR. Thompson considers
Thomas the brightest and most prOmis-
ing county in Kansas, and Colby as the |
great railroad center of northwestern |,
Kansas.
w. H. Marble has bought half inter-
est in the Colby implement firm of J. +. |
Meelemre. The firm will be known un- |
der the name of Meglemre & Marble here |
after. This makes a strong firm, and the |
large acquaintance and reliability of both |
Mr. Meglemre and Mr.. Marble will in
crease their already large patronage
They are located east of Newell House.
Joe Lamont has received his new chair
for his barber shop. 1t is elegant and
adds much to the already cOmmOdiOus
and neat tOnsOrial parlOrs of MIR. La
mont. A coat of varnish has just been
put on all furniture in the room, and one
almsst thinks he is in a city getting
shave when in Mr.. LamOnt's barber
shop. 1t is a common remark that
better shave cannot be got in Kansas than
at Joe Lamont's.
The LeOti Transcript is the latest paper
started in Wichita county, Kans. 1t is a
neat 8-column folio, and well edited and
bOOms LeOti, the county seat of Wichita
county.
Syracuse, Hamilton county, elected five
women members of the city council
Ex.
Many bills, not divorce bills, have been
presented, it is said. Elaborate petitions
for waterwOrks are up for the petticoats
to deliberate upon. Several mains will
be established right away. The council
will wear the pants if the mayor don't
veto the scheme.
Ed CAT:-Just because that fellow
Mary O. Hurry, gave Rev. Bullers such q
raking. want to suggest that Rev. Bull
lers get married and avoid any such nom
sensical nonsense in the future.
Say! Say now! Have you read the
Life of Abraham LincOlnY' That runs
in the Century just nOw-and while
think of it, do you know that Doc Weld
at the pOstOff1ce book store, has the Cen
tury We hear it said that he also has
the school book trade of the county; but
least this might be considered an adver-
tising scheme, Iwon't say anything more
except to say that he cuts like the old
Harry on prices and all the young ladies ,
say he is good looking. By the way, Mr..
Cat. you might add that Weld is great on
getting good quality of candy and 9th
er stationery Do not tell him who wrote
about it, but if Mr.. Buffers ever says ,
anything more about Mary, just tell him
to refer to the p. m. or some other fel- i
low. Yours truly, MARY.
B. N. Bancroft, of the firm of Hurlbut
s. Bancroft. made the delivery Of their
fruit trees Monday and Tuesday of last
week. 1t amounted to S11OO cash. Mr..
Bancroft reports that buyers paid cash, !
and the buyers were highly pleased with
the trees. We saw them, and they can't
be beaten. well preserved and in excel {
lent condition. This is one Of the best !
nursery firms in the west. Their deliv-
cry was one-third larger than any other
firms. He also had the trees which he
donated to the county They are maple
and box elder. and quite large. Ed Hall
had four beautiful evergreen trees. The
vet weather now makes the time OppOr-
tune to plant the trees. They win surely b